3: Hard turn into QR-art

Tony Taj (pseudonym for Jose Torres)

The City — AMP (for 'Ambient Media Portal'), 2011

Mixed media on canvas, 24" x 36"

Artist's website: TonyTaj.com

First work for the project series is well underway, and it's pretty simple visually: a giant QR code on canvas. 

Always like to look at similar works, so for the next few days will look at a few other things people have done with QR codes (and here's an explanation of what those are if that would be helpful).

First up, an artist who goes by the name Tony Taj, who embeds QR codes into paintings like so:  

When these QR codes are viewed with the right device, an animated video will play, showing e.g. stories about the people who live in those locations in the painting. 

For an article explaining more about how this works, visit InstallationMag here.